Re: [PLUG] [plug-announce] Tue Mar 10 - PLUG North

Thanks everyone that could come out. It was fun but not enough on topic or to plan. I will reach out to Bill to see if I can work with him and Tom (current bot owners and experts) on a better hands on experience with Open Claw and better structured talk.

I didn't even get home yet after the post talk optional meetup of his main Open Claw instance is busy replicating himself. I look forward to discussing this all again in the future. So even tonight we're actively building and pushing Open Claw. I will see what we can do to maybe get an instance on IRC.

What is unique tonight was a crash course in local and frontier LLM use with OpenCode and costs. I really appreciate the immediate feedback and am open to more feedback for any future talks on this subject. If anyone is on this list from CIALUG, we did dive a bit further but faster with self hosting LLM's.

Again, thank you everyone and I look forward to any discussions. If anyone is sick of AI talk, I totally can empathize and feel free to reach out as some these topics can be equally as frustrating as polarizing.

-Will C

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026, 09:08 Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:

Hi Will,

Thanks for volunteering! Unfortunately I probably won't be able to
make the meeting tonight, but I look forward to seeing you present it
in the future.

Walt

On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:03:24AM -0400, Will via plug wrote:
> I'm volunteering to hijack this "General Discussion" with a *concept of a
> talk*.
>
> As I won't have a formal presentation, I will be leading a guided
> discussion on Open Claw and what I have been exposed to. I come with:
>
> - Hosting experience in 3 different ways.
> - Root on system
> - Docker
> - Surprise not docker solution and why it's better.
> - Sub Agents!
> - Costs
> - Anthropic and OpenAI observed costs.
> - Self hosting experience.
> - Configuration
> - How
> - Process
> - What is the "Soul"?
> - Plugins and extensions.
> - Which frontier models tested.
> - Self hosting options
> - Networking
> - Cross site VPN options tested and options.
> - Backups
> - How to back up and save your bots!
> - Fun related topics
> - Security!
> - Provenance: What is it, why you care, and how this probably impacts
> your life now as a developer, admin, or infrastructure person . May hold
> non-techies accountable for the words out of their mouths.
> - Context windows, what it is and strategies observed (this group
> might solve this in general discussion).
> - Live Demo? May take the group to make this unplanned demo.
>
>
> If this topic interests you and you cannot make it, don't worry. This is
> more like getting some friendly people in a room to help me make an actual
> formal talk for Open Claw and will likely give it formally soon at LUG near
> you (Yes Andrew, CIALUG will likely get this one)!
>
> -Will C
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2026 at 9:34 AM Walt Mankowski via plug-announce via plug <
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